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TTEE STATES PATENT OFFTCE,

CHARLES P. CARTER, OF IVARE, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPLE-PARER.

Specification forming,` part of Letters Patent No. 6,789, dated October 16, 1849; Ressued August 12, 1856, No. 385.

To aZZ whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES I). CARTER, of Vare, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Machine for Paring Apples and Various other Fruits or Vegetables; and I do hereby declare that t-he same is fully described and represented in the following specification and accompanying drawings, let-ters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 denotes a top view of my said machine. Fig. 2., a side elevat-ion. Fig. 3, an elevation or view of one end. Fig. 4, an elevation of the other end,

A, in the drawings represents the frame: work by. which the operative parts are supported in place.

B is the driving shaft which may be rotated by the hand of persons applied to a crank C, extending from one side of a grooved wheel D which is fixed in the outer extremity of the shaft and has around its periphery an endless belt E. This belt passes around the grooved circumference of wheel F, fixed on another shaft G, which shaft by means of four or any other suitable number of prongs a, cz, a, a, is made to sustain the apple, it being pressed against the prongs so as to cause them to enter it and pass longitudinally throughits core. Vhen the shaft G is revolved the apple will be rotated with and by it.

The paring kinfe is seen at I-I. It is aiiixed to the cross-head Z), of a long lever I, which turns on a fulcrum or pin c, extending through it and a socket piece K,

' as'seen particularly in Fig. 5 which is a longitudinal section of the said lever and socket Y piece.

A spring L properly connected to the lever and its socket piece, serves to press the knife against t-he apple and to permit it to conform itself to the irregularities thereof during the operation of paring it. The socket piece K, is supported by journals (Z, e, which rest and revolve in a lateral direction in bearings made in the outer ends of two arms or strats M, N, which are arranged and made to project from the side of the frame A as seen in the drawings.

Between one of the bearings and the socket piece and attached to them is a toothed sector O, which engages with a horizontal sliding rack bar I), so adapted to the frame A, as to lbe capable of being moved both forward and backward in a longitudinal direction. This rack bar P has two ears if, g, extending inward from one edge of it,

.jointed at its upper end to one end of a long bar R, that is to say said lever has a hook ZZ, which passes through a hole made downward through the bar.

A small pin or stud Z, extends from the inner side of the lever Q, as seen in Fig. 6, which is a side view of the lever as it would appear when detached from the machine. The said stud is made to enter a helical or screw groove z', cut in and around the surface of a cylinder S, fixed on the driving shaft B and rotated by it. That end of the bot-tom surface of the helical groove which is nearest to the socket piece K, stands from and even with the surface of the cylinder, so that when the pin or stud reaches the same, it will ass out of the groove and upon the said sur ace of the cylinder.

Vhen the driving shaft is revolved in the direction denoted by the arrow Z in Fig. 2, it will so revolve ther helical groove, as to press or move the lever Q, toward the socket piece K, thereby at the same time causing the rack bar to be moved horizontally by the lever. In consequence of this the teeth of the rack bar by their action on the sector O, will impart a lateral rotation to the sector and the lever I, and thereby cause the cutting knife to keep itself in proper contact with the surface of the apple to the degree necessary to remove the entire peel of it, in one continuous strip or shavmg.

As soon as the removal ofthe peel has been effected, the stud Z, reaches the terminat-ion of the helical groove, and passes out of the groove, so as to permit a retractive spring T, to throw or move the lever toward the opposite end of the cylinder S, and thereby move the rack-bar and other parts connected with it so as to restore the cutting knife to the position it should have inorder for it to commence to cut on another apple.

In order to prevent the pin Z, from being drawn into or entering the helical groove during its back movement over the surface of the cylinder and until it reaches the other end of the said groove, the bar R, before mentioned (and which has one end of a spring V, attached to it whose other end is attached to a cross tie V, of the frame A, the said spring being for the purpose of drawing the lever Q, toward the cylinder S) is received in a notch m (see Fig. 7) of a bar V2, which is connected with a slide bar W. This operation ywill be more fully explained after the description of the apparatus or part of the machine, by which the apple after it has been pared is discharged or thrown off from the prongs by which it is sustained during the operation of removing its skin.

The bar W, is suitably supported so as to be capable of being moved longitudinally of itself and transversely of the machine. On that end of it which is immediately underneath the prongs a, a, before mentioned and it has a vertical plate Y, which is carried up in rear of the apple and by being pressed against it during the forward movement of the bar V, discharges it from the prongs. The said forward movement of the bar W, is effected by means of the action of the long bar R, against the bar V2. i This bar V2, lies in a groove or recess t (see Fig. 7, which is a vertical and longitudinal section of the slide bar W, and the parts of the machine which are situated directly over it) made down in the bar IV, and it is forced upward by means of a spring u, arranged under it, as seen in Fig. 7. While the slide bar W, is being moved forward the spring bar V2, will be depressed in to its recess, by means of the part x, of the frame work the top surface of the bar V2, being so formed with a slope y, as to cause the depression of the bar to be gradual. A retractive spring Z, is fixed to the bar IV, and the frame A.

Fig. l which is a top view of the slide bar W, the bars R and V2, exhibits the notch m, before mentioned. The bar R, passes through a staple a', drawn up into the under side of the cross tie V, the said staple serving for a fulcrum for it.

Now when the bar R, is retracted by its spring Il, that end of the bar which is upon the slide bar W, presses against the end of the spring bar V2, and thereby moves the bar W, so as to discharge the apple from the prongs a, a. It will be seen alsothat when the stud or pin of the lever Q, is in the act of leaving the helical groove, the bar R, will have a longitudinal motion imparted to it, such as will cause its end which is contiguous to the bar V2, to pass into the notch m. This notch m, therefore so long as the end of the bar R, remains in it, will keep the stud Z, from entering the helical groove. The depression of the spring bar V2, however by the part releases the end of the bar R from the notch and thereby permits the pin to again enter the helical groove at the proper time.

I lay no claim to the invention of the combination of a rotating apple holder, or shaft and a knife fixed to a bar whose movements in order to keep the knife against the surface of the apple during the operation of removing the peel, are directed by the hand of a person applied to it; but

lVhat I claim as my invention isl. The use of the upright lever arm Q in combination with the rack bar P for working t-he knife in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. I also claim the upright lever AQ in combination with the inclined lever bar R and discharging bar W in the manner and for the purposes described. 1

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my signature this sixteenth day of June A. D. 1849. CHARLES P. CARTER.

Vitnesses:

W. HYDE,'

J. CARTER.

[Fms'r PRiN'rED 1913.] 

